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Contents:

• BNEI’S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW GO TO EFFECT THIS WEEK. HERE’S HOW THE WORLD IS REACTG
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• BNEI TO PUNISH GAY SEX AND ADULTERY WH ATH BY STONG
• ‘IT’S DANGERO TO GO OUT NOW’: YOUNG, GAY AND SRED BNEI

BNEI’S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW GO TO EFFECT THIS WEEK. HERE’S HOW THE WORLD IS REACTG

Bin shared a CNN article on the new law on his official Twter acunt, wrg, “Stong people to ath for homosexualy or adultery is appallg and immoral. In a statement on Twter, ‏Kurz said: “I ll on the Sultanate of Bnei to whdraw the ath penalty by stong (of) homosexual acts between nsentg adults. “(Atralia’s) Labor (Party) is eply ncerned by the Bnei ernment’s plans to implement new laws that would see adultery and homosexual acts between nsentg adults punishable by ath, ” she tweeted.

“Our hearts go out to the good, hardworkg employe of properti owned by the Sultan of Bnei, many of whom we know to be gay, ” he wrote. Bnei’s new law punishg homosexual sex wh ath by stong has sent a wave of fear across the LGBT populatn neighborg Malaysia and Indonia. Malaysian LGBT rights mpaigner Thilaga Sulathireh said the immediate reactn among the gay muny was ncern the crackdown uld spread.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

Malaysia already enforc a mixed secular and relig legal system, wh some regns mandatg Sharia laws punishg what the penal lls “unnatural” acts such as homosexual sex wh ng and f, while Indonia’s nservative northwtern provce of Aceh has a history of enactg Sharia law. Activists said the rise of nservative Islamic groups had been marked by growg homophobia both untri, and an crease official actn agast LGBT people.

Bnei’s new Islamic crimal laws punishg gay sex and adultery by stong offenrs to ath have triggered an outcry om untri, rights groups and celebri far beyond the ty south-east Asian natn’s penalti were provid for unr new sectns of Bnei’s sharia penal and took effect on Wednday.

“Let’s be clear, every sgle time we stay at or take meetgs at or de at any of the ne hotels we are puttg money directly to the pockets of men who choose to stone and whip to ath their own cizens for beg gay or acced of adultery, ” Clooney wrote a gut lumn on Deadle Hollywood last week. ” the actor Hassanal Bolkiah stuted the sharia penal 2014 to bolster the fluence of Islam the oil-rich monarchy of about 430, 000 people, two-thirds of whom are even before 2014, homosexualy was already punishable the untry by a jail term of up to 10 first stage of the sharia penal clud f or jail for offens such as pregnancy out of wedlock or failg to pray on Fridays.

BNEI TO PUNISH GAY SEX AND ADULTERY WH ATH BY STONG

“The Uned Stat strongly oppos vlence, crimalizatn and discrimatn targetg vulnerable groups, cludg women at risk of vlence, relig and ethnic mori, and lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex persons, ” the state partment puty spokman, Robert Pallado, said a ’s south-east Asian neighbors, some of whom have laws banng sex between men, were silent. Media ptn, Protters outsi the Dorchter London lled for the Brish royal fay to cut ti wh the SultanBnei should be "chucked out" of the Commonwealth if do not revoke s anti-LGBT laws, shadow foreign secretary Ey Thornberry has South-East Asian natn troduced strict Islamic laws this week that make gay sex punishable by stong to of protters chanted "shame on you" outsi the Bnei-owned Dorchter hotel London on Saturday. "Ms Thornberry and the shadow mister for women and equali Dawn Butler on Friday wrote to the foreign secretary to ll for the prime mister to "take a leadg role nmng the laws and llg for strong actn to be taken" PM Thera May is the current Commonwealth chair--office - a ma learship role the source, PAImage ptn, Labour's Ey Thornberry said "hatred agast anyone is hatred agast all of "'Tyrannil regime'Gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell, who anised the monstratn and is llg for a boytt of all of the sultan's pani, said: "There n be no normal bs relatns wh an abnormal tyrannil regime like that of Bnei.

‘IT’S DANGERO TO GO OUT NOW’: YOUNG, GAY AND SRED BNEI

"What the sultan has done has troduced punishments the same as Isis implemented Iraq and Syria durg s so-lled liphate, cludg btal stong to ath of people nvicted of homosexualy, adultery and sultg the Prophet Muhammad. "But rather than threateng to kick untri out of the Commonwealth, we believe the bt way to make progrs and enurage Bnei to uphold s ternatnal human rights obligatns is via a nstctive dialogue on this issue, " the new laws were announced, homosexualy was already illegal Bnei and punishable by up to 10 years prison. “As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry, ” Sunak told MP.

Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.